Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That is already happening. Senate Finance Chairman Robert Dole of Kansas announced last week that his Democratic counterpart in the House, Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, had agreed to support legislation to end the tax leasing proviso that allows money-losing companies to sell their depreciation credits to profitable firms. Leasing would cost the Treasury about $27 billion over five years, and is virtually certain to be repealed...
...battlefield in wartime have seen him through this new test with flying colors." Added Reagan, describing his own brief phone conversation with Dozier: "He sounded as if he'd just gone down to the corner for five minutes." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger received a call from his Italian counterpart, Lelio Lagorio, who speaks little English. Weinberger, who speaks little Italian, broke the language barrier with an exultant "Magnifico!" Answered Lagorio happily: "Si! Si!" In Dozier's home town, Arcadia, Fla., (pop. 6,047), townspeople draped century-old oaks with yellow ribbons and declared a day of celebration...
...find it difficult to believe that a union member, who earns $8 an hour more than his Japanese counterpart, can blame management for General Motors' inability to compete in the present auto market...
...sequence of chapters assessing U.S. military capabilities and the East-West balance. It is replete with statistics culled from Western sources; the Soviets almost never reveal their own military data. In one respect, Whence the Threat is even superior to its U.S. counterpart: the Soviets were able to print actual photographs, which are readily available, of such new American weapons as the B-1 strategic bomber and the M-1 battle tank. The U.S. booklet, Soviet Military Power, used artists' renderings of satellite photographs of Soviet weapons. The Soviet effort contains many distortions and a few outright lies...
...brush. So one is obliged to speak of Pollock in terms of a perfected visual taste, analogous to natural pitch in music-a far cry, indeed, from the familiar image of him as a violent expressionist. As William Rubin suggests in the catalogue to this show, his musical counterpart is not the romantic and moody Bartók: it is the interlaced, twinkling and silky surface of Debussy. No wonder that it took an enthusiasm for Pollock to provoke the re-evaluation of Monet's Water Lilies among Americans, back...